English Dictionary

woolly

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈwʊli/

形容詞

比喩的用法 of + 動名詞 通常 廃用

Made of wool. / Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool. / (figuratively, of thinking, principles, etc.) Based on emotions rather than logic. / (figuratively) Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.

日本語の意味

羊毛で作られた、羊毛製の / 羊毛のようにもこもこした、ふわふわした質感を持つ / （比喩的に）感情に流される、感情を基にした / （比喩的に）曖昧な、ぼんやりした、はっきりしない

She wrapped herself in a woolly shawl as the wind swept across the moor.

彼女は荒野を風が吹き抜ける中、ウールのショールを身にまとった。

意味（1）

Made of wool.

Sporting a woolly cardigan with four buttons on top of an Oxford smock without a collar, our man has a faintly folksy look about him, calling to mind a zingaro or a gypsy, a carny or a Mongol, but also (switching to a wholly distinct mythology and iconography) a hippy strumming his guitar in a barroom in Haight-Ashbury or at Big Sur or in Katmandu.

意味（2）

Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.

woolly hair

意味（3）

(figuratively, of thinking, principles, etc.) Based on emotions rather than logic.

That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.

意味（4）

(figuratively) Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.

To call David Lean's Dr Zhivago a translation of Pasternak's novel is not only to disregard the specificity of film art, but to make such woolly use of the word ‘translation’ as to fit it to refer to any kind of transformation. Knitting included.

意味（5）

(obsolete) Clothed in wool.

woolly breeders

woollier （ comparative ）

woolliest （ superlative ）